Murtha Responds to Bush's Plan
And from Think Progress, one of the reporter's questions has a big reveal:
MURTHA: Twenty years it’s going to take to settle this thing. The American people is not going to put up with it; can’t afford it. We have spent $277 billion. That’s what’s been appropriated for this operation. We have $50 billion sitting on the table right now in our supplemental, or bridge fund we call it, in the Appropriations Committee. They’re going to ask for another $100 billion next year.
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QUESTION: Can we come back to the $100 billion? You said that you expect the military to ask for $100 billion. Where are you getting that figure?
MURTHA: Where I get all my figures: the military.
Murtha has reason to know. He’s the ranking member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. The total cost of the Iraq war is quickly approaching the cost of Vietnam, which lasted 8 years.
Very interesting...
posted by SB Gypsy | 4:19 PM
4 Comments:
To think that a few short weeks ago, I had not heard of this man Murtha, and now he's single-handedly saving our country. What a brave and heroic man. It takes a lot of courage to stand up and speak out in our country these days.
Murtha does come out swinging... I agree with Rexroth's Daughter. I had not heard of him before the last couple weeks. I wonder if he was talking or just sitting back thinking?
I really like Murtha – it’s a pity he's a touch long in the tooth - he might make a good president. At his age though, he might not be all that interested - if you do it right, the presidency’s draining and hard. I'd at least be interested in hearing some of his other opinions, though.
Thank Goodness for Murtha!!!
He's probably the only dem that could lead this particular charge. And when he speaks, the military listen, because he listens to them.
The right wing slander just slides off of him, because his record is unimpeachable.
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